Railway-journal-box lid



Patented May 20, 1924.

PATIENT or WILLIAMEnnsrUswILLIAMs, or WILMETTE, ILLINOIS@l aaa/:ite les.)

RAILWAYJOURNAL-BOX LID.

Application filed March 12, 1923. Serial No. 624,469.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ERAsTUs WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, a resident of Wilmette, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway-Journal- Box Lids, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide for a railway journal box a lid that may be atlixed to the box in the simplest manner and yet be held upon the box most securely.`

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. l is a side sectional elevation of my journal box. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on the same line as Fig.V 3, the lid only being shown and certain parts being benty as hereinafter explained. Fig. 5 is a modified form orn devices seen in Figs. 3, 4.

In the drawing, 1 indicates the ordinary journal of a railway car, and 2 an ordinary journal box which is provided with the ordinary master car builders hinge nose lug, 3.

4 designates a lid body, preferably a pressed soft steel plate, stiiiened by a cross rib 5 and having lateral marginal flanges 6 bent over the side walls of the box. The plate has an upwardly extending portion 8 which is bent forward and then curved rearwardly at some distance above the box. The flanges 6 are continuous with broader wings 9 of pliable metal which carry re# spectively, pintles 10, to work in bearing perforations in the lugs 3. In the laterally open chamber formed by the parts 8, 9, lies a spring 7 riveted to the inner face of the plate 4 and normally pressing the upright ,face of a projection on the box, thereby yieldingly resisting swinging of the lid. j

When the lid is Jformed ready to be applied to the journal box the wings 9 are in the form shown in Fig. 4 or Fig. 5' and in the application of the lid to the journal box one of the pintles or pin lugs 10 may be first inserted in the cavity 11 as shown by Fig. 5, and then the other one hammered in with a hammer by bending over the wing at the point 12, see Figs. 4 and 5.

If the form of Fig. 4 is desired then both the wings 9 will be bent in with the hammer and the lid firmly secured into the working position desired on the journal box.

The lids being made out of pressed steel provides a. material that will permit the these wings are bent in and the pintles 10 vengaged in the pin holeof thehinge lug the stiiiness of the metal of the lid is suficient to hold the lid` in place` in any normal service.`

My lids thus fastened hold better than the lids normally Aheld in by pins or bolts as heretofore used as no amount of jar `or rattle will cause this lid to become loose and drop off.

A large number of lids are secured to the journal boxes through hinge pins whichv are held in place by cotter pins passing through perforations in the ends of the pins. rlhere is perhaps no part of the car that is subject to such severe shocks and vibrations as the journal boxes and this constant rattle and vibration results in cutting the cotter pin asunder or jarring it out of its seat in the hinge pin or bolt, then the hinge pin or bolt works out and the lid drops oil. Accidents such as last above described are not possible with my lids as here shown.

. There is less metal and less expense involved in making my lids than the other style lids and they are more easily and cheaply applied to the car box.

What l claim is l. The combination with a one-piece box lid body plate extending upwardly and rearwardly above the box and provided with integral, lateral, primarily divergent, pliable non-resilient wings carrying pintles, respectively, to enter, when the wings are bent toward each other, bearings on the axle box, of a spring immovably xed to said body and adapted to resist, yieldingly, opening movement of the same.

2. lThe combination with an axle box having above hinge lugs to hold a box lid, of a unitary indivisible lid member consisting of a. pliable, non-resilient body plate projecting upwardly and rearwardly over said lugs and provided with lateral, normall)7 divergent wings, of pliable, nonresilient metal, bea-ring pintles adapted to engage, when the wingsare bent toward parallel relation, said hinge lugs.

3. The combination with an axle box having rigid lugs adapted to receive hinge pintles, of a unitary lid lmember having all its parts inseparable and relatively immovable in use, and bearing, on pliable metal wings,

pintles adapted to engage said lugs when the Wings are properly bent in assembling the box and lid, and a spring rigidly lsecured to the lid and resisting, by pressing against the box, all vibratory motion of the lid With respect to the box.

4. A pliable .sheet li'ietal box lid havinglateral Wing portions perforated for receiving short pintles, primarily separate short pintles permanently secured in the perforations, respectively, both said portions being bent in the saine direction from the general plane of the lid, and one being inclined thereto, and adapted to be further bent for permanently engaging and holding the pintles in bearings in the axle box. 

